Colorado Legalizes Weed for Recreational Use

[RDD_1210]

The Walking Dead will be a documentary.

Get those kids hooked young, you have an addict for life.

How is this any different than your addiction to alcohol?

I'm not addicted to anything and I choose not to let someone else's addiction enter into my life. It can be imposed as this is, but no one has to put up with it in their lives. Just throw them out.

Unlike alcohol, which can be a glass of wine with dinner, an after meal brandy or a beer watching the game, the sole purpose of pot is to get high. It serves no other purpose. So, let the addicts get high. As long as I can throw them out of the house and down the stairs, let them do what they want. It's just a matter of keeping an extra eye on the road for the marijuana impaired drivers. Other than that, really, sit back and let them die in the streets. It's the best thing to happen to them. Yes, even the kids. How well do you think pot addicted kids are going to do in high school?

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

The new American, fat, lazy, drug addicted and looking for an excuse to sue someone.

You have to be on something. Have you ever read the shit you post?

I was sure alcohol was involved.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Come tax refund season I will be visiting Colorado.

LOL...be careful crossing state lines

 

[BlindBoo]

Yes - potheads are a menace since they all drive cars. The auto industry is funding this "grassroots" movement. Car crashes mean car sales.

Although cannabis intoxication has been shown to mildly impair psychomotor skills, this impairment does not appear to be severe or long lasting. In driving simulator tests, this impairment is typically manifested by subjects decreasing their driving speed and requiring greater time to respond to emergency situations.

Nevertheless, this impairment does not appear to play a significant role in on-road traffic accidents. A 2002 review of seven separate studies involving 7,934 drivers reported, “Crash culpability studies have failed to demonstrate that drivers with cannabinoids in the blood are significantly more likely than drug-free drivers to be culpable in road crashes.” This result is likely because subject under the influence of marijuana are aware of their impairment and compensate for it accordingly, such as by slowing down and by focusing their attention when they know a response will be required. This reaction is just the opposite of that exhibited by drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to drive in a more risky manner proportional to their intoxication.

Marijuana and Driving: A Review of the Scientific Evidence

 

[martybegan]

The Walking Dead will be a documentary.

Get those kids hooked young, you have an addict for life.

It's what I like to call a "slippery slope"

Get them started on cigarettes then cheap beer
Then tantalize them with demon reefer
Next thing you know....coke, crack, PCP....heroin
Then unwanted sex, abortion......leading to....Homosexuality
Next thing you know.....pedophilia and bestiality
then.....before you know it.....you have people watching Fox News and turning into CONSERVATIVES

There is nothing wrong with the "slippery slope" argument, when applied to the proper situation and or individuals. Pot is indeed a gateway drug, to those weak willed people who continue on to the harder stuff to plug whatever hole in thier life needs filling. The fallacy is in the assumption that every person follows the same path upon starting pot use.

 

[kaz]

The Walking Dead will be a documentary.

Get those kids hooked young, you have an addict for life.

You have to be 21 to buy.

Just like beer! And we know that kids can't possibly get their hands on alcohol.

Er...so now, any high school kid can get all the pot they want. And you're afraid that if it's legal, then they might be able to get pot. There you go, let's not process reality. How many times have you criticized liberals for not dealing with reality?



I do believe you're closing that barn door just a bit late there, my friend.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I believe the age should be dropped back to 18. If your old enough to die for your nation in a war, your old enough to get high.

According to obamacare, you're a child till you're 26.

According to your logic you're 1 step smarter than a turd

 

[kaz]

recent medical journals have linked pot to schizophrenia. Even if untrue, pot is a gateway drug in the very least.

This doesn't seem like it's going to end well for you. But let's let's take this reasoning out further and see where it goes.

Pot is a gateway drug, so let's make sure that kids who use it are buying it illegally from drug users who sell other drugs.

Yep, the initial thought was right, this didn't end well for you.

BTW, I smoked dope in high school. Never tried anything else, haven't smoked pot in 30 years.

 

[ClosedCaption]

The Walking Dead will be a documentary.

Get those kids hooked young, you have an addict for life.

How is this any different than your addiction to alcohol?

I'm not addicted to anything and I choose not to let someone else's addiction enter into my life. It can be imposed as this is, but no one has to put up with it in their lives. Just throw them out.

Unlike alcohol, which can be a glass of wine with dinner, an after meal brandy or a beer watching the game, the sole purpose of pot is to get high. It serves no other purpose. So, let the addicts get high. As long as I can throw them out of the house and down the stairs, let them do what they want. It's just a matter of keeping an extra eye on the road for the marijuana impaired drivers. Other than that, really, sit back and let them die in the streets. It's the best thing to happen to them. Yes, even the kids. How well do you think pot addicted kids are going to do in high school?

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

The new American, fat, lazy, drug addicted and looking for an excuse to sue someone.

Yeah Alcohols main purpose isnt to get you buzzed its to look like a fancy pants. Stop being an idiot. I know I know, you drink so drinking cant be bad like those addicts who smoke weed. Alcohol isnt a drug...I mean it is but its enjoyed with dinner...I guess you can smoke after dinner too but...its not the same. because....yeah

 

[BlindBoo]

recent medical journals have linked pot to schizophrenia. Even if untrue, pot is a gateway drug in the very least.

Nah, the real gateway drug is tobacco/nicotine. It is usually the first drug most all drug addicts try first. Followed by alcohol......And then there is this....

Now, the most powerful evidence against the supposed marijuana-insanity link has come forth, with the publication of a new Harvard study showing that evidence of increased prevalence of schizophrenia among people who smoked pot in their teens can be explained by genetic and other familial factors instead of any causal relationship between pot and mental illness.

Why Does the Myth of Marijuana and Schizophrenia Persist Despite Numerous Debunkings? | Alternet

 

[Katzndogz]

Hopefully this is just the beginning of an eventual nationwide adoption. I don't smoke but I've never understood why we can't legalize it and tax it similar to how we do with alcohol. This is a good first step.

The same should happen for prostitution. More senseless restrictions for a victimless crime.

Prosititution is not even close to a victimless crime, considering the overall amount of people damaged by the sex trade. Legalizing it might help curb that but it wouldnt eliminate it.

Ok.....forced sex workers are victims but that can definitely be helped/fixed if it was regulated and licensed properly.

What they found in the Netherlands is that even with legalized prostitution there were still forced sex workers.

Since there's really no difference, legalized prostiution isn't going to change anything one way or other.

 

[Katzndogz]

recent medical journals have linked pot to schizophrenia. Even if untrue, pot is a gateway drug in the very least.

Nah, the real gateway drug is tobacco/nicotine. It is usually the first drug most all drug addicts try first. Followed by alcohol......And then there is this....

Now, the most powerful evidence against the supposed marijuana-insanity link has come forth, with the publication of a new Harvard study showing that evidence of increased prevalence of schizophrenia among people who smoked pot in their teens can be explained by genetic and other familial factors instead of any causal relationship between pot and mental illness.

Why Does the Myth of Marijuana and Schizophrenia Persist Despite Numerous Debunkings? | Alternet

And we should believe Alternet rather than medical reports because........?????

 

[RDD_1210]

Prosititution is not even close to a victimless crime, considering the overall amount of people damaged by the sex trade. Legalizing it might help curb that but it wouldnt eliminate it.

Ok.....forced sex workers are victims but that can definitely be helped/fixed if it was regulated and licensed properly.

What they found in the Netherlands is that even with legalized prostitution there were still forced sex workers.

Since there's really no difference, legalized prostiution isn't going to change anything one way or other.

Woah, wait a second. You mean to tell me that laws don't completely eliminate a behavior/action?

Shit, we should just make murder legal now, since people are still being murdered despite the law that says they can't.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

^ FDR's campaign against hemp at the behest of DuPont

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Good for colorado. Now, the proceeds will go to stop marijuana addiction.

 

[Katzndogz]

How is this any different than your addiction to alcohol?

I'm not addicted to anything and I choose not to let someone else's addiction enter into my life. It can be imposed as this is, but no one has to put up with it in their lives. Just throw them out.

Unlike alcohol, which can be a glass of wine with dinner, an after meal brandy or a beer watching the game, the sole purpose of pot is to get high. It serves no other purpose. So, let the addicts get high. As long as I can throw them out of the house and down the stairs, let them do what they want. It's just a matter of keeping an extra eye on the road for the marijuana impaired drivers. Other than that, really, sit back and let them die in the streets. It's the best thing to happen to them. Yes, even the kids. How well do you think pot addicted kids are going to do in high school?

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables

The new American, fat, lazy, drug addicted and looking for an excuse to sue someone.

You have to be on something. Have you ever read the shit you post?

I was sure alcohol was involved.

Because you are deranged and to the deranged, sanity is an alien state of being.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Are there any studies on second hand marijuana smoke? I got lots iof second hand smoke exposure at Led Zep concerts at Madison Square Garden

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Are there any studies on second hand marijuana smoke? I got lots iof second hand smoke exposure at Led Zep concerts at Madison Square Garden

Mild weight gain?

 

[Katzndogz]

Good for colorado. Now, the proceeds will go to stop marijuana addiction.

What are YOU smoking! You know that whatever money is raised will go to the support of the politicians first and then the welfare state to buy votes so the politicians can continue to rape the taxpayers.

What I want to see is a nice little trade war spring up between the cartels and the legal outlets. That's going to be good.

 

[BlindBoo]

recent medical journals have linked pot to schizophrenia. Even if untrue, pot is a gateway drug in the very least.

Nah, the real gateway drug is tobacco/nicotine. It is usually the first drug most all drug addicts try first. Followed by alcohol......And then there is this....

Now, the most powerful evidence against the supposed marijuana-insanity link has come forth, with the publication of a new Harvard study showing that evidence of increased prevalence of schizophrenia among people who smoked pot in their teens can be explained by genetic and other familial factors instead of any causal relationship between pot and mental illness.

Why Does the Myth of Marijuana and Schizophrenia Persist Despite Numerous Debunkings? | Alternet

And we should believe Alternet rather than medical reports because........?????

.....of the link to the Harvard study......

Abstract

Background

Cannabis is one of the most highly abused illicit drugs in the world. Several studies suggest a link between adolescent cannabis use and schizophrenia. An understanding of this link would have significant implications for legalization of cannabis and its medicinal value. The present study aims to determine whether familial morbid risk for schizophrenia is the crucial factor that underlies the association of adolescent cannabis use with the development of schizophrenia.

Methods

Consecutively obtained probands were recruited into four samples: sample 1: 87 non-psychotic controls with no drug use; sample 2: 84 non-psychotic controls with cannabis use; sample 3: 32 patients with a schizophrenia spectrum psychosis with no drug use; sample 4: 76 patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis with cannabis use. All cannabis using subjects used this drug during adolescence, and no other substance, with the exception of alcohol. Structured interviews of probands and family informants were used to obtain diagnostic information about probands and all their known relatives.

Results

There was an increased morbid risk for schizophrenia in relatives of the cannabis using and non-using patient samples compared with their respective non-psychotic control samples (p=.002, p<.001 respectively). There was no significant difference in morbid risk for schizophrenia between relatives of the patients who use or do not use cannabis (p=.43).

Conclusions

The results of the current study suggest that having an increased familial morbid risk for schizophrenia may be the underlying basis for schizophrenia in cannabis users and not cannabis use by itself.

 

[Katzndogz]

Are there any studies on second hand marijuana smoke? I got lots iof second hand smoke exposure at Led Zep concerts at Madison Square Garden

Yes there are.

Second Hand Marijuana Smoke